From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 965 chipset and 2 DIMM slots will never give 4GB available? Is that correct?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:00:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710181500.24885.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4uju4-ick.ln1@poboxes.info>
On Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007, Evert wrote:
> I read their text again and noticed: 'OS will allocate 3~4GB memory address
> for onboard device'.
> Wouldn't that mean it's simply a (kernel)configuration issue...?
no, it is a 'stupid bios' issue. The bios could put the pci/other device
memory space somewhere in the high terrabyte area, but instead it chooses to
put it at the end of the 4gb range, because of historical reasons.
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2007-10-18 11:54 ` [gentoo-amd64] Re: 965 chipset and 2 DIMM slots will never give 4GB available? Is that correct? Evert
2007-10-18 13:00 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2007-10-19 10:08 ` Duncan
2007-10-19 11:04 ` Evert
2007-10-19 15:29 ` [gentoo-amd64] Bad LiveCD at torrent site? Kevin N. Carpenter
2007-10-19 18:00 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-10-19 18:16 ` [gentoo-amd64] Re: 965 chipset and 2 DIMM slots will never give 4GB available? Is that correct? Duncan
2007-10-19 20:41 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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